Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges) Quotes
The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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One writes what one can, or has to, write.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.
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I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in the back room or whatever, have a couple of beers and try to explain. But they need to understand that I enforce the laws. I want to listen to them and hear their problems. I want them to tell me what their problems are.
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Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.
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The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'
